They have to be zipped and password protected or sent from the chest, etc.
I wonder why they have to be password protected?
Anyway I think I've found my problem its another virus that Avast obviously doesn't pickup on. This one kids Avast that certain files are a virus/trojan. I did another format and rebuild last night. I installed Avast first job, did a full scan and all clean. I installed my Realtek sound drives, scan again all clear. I installed things one at a time and rescanned to try and find which app is installing this virus. Now I thought the other day am I picking something up of my flash drives which I install a lot of. I took all 10 flash drives to work and scanned each one with McAfee 8.5. I picked up of a few that shows a W32/VIRUT.N.GEN virus and it cleaned them successfully.
All was going well until I used one of the last flash drives. Now I can't remember exactly what I installed as there are a few on there then Avast pops up saying virus in a lot of the Malware apps in a sub folder. Now I know these aren't virus's so I kept on clicking continue. I have CCleaner running so I click on Startup and there is reader_s.exe supposed to run on startup along with a couple of dll's msxm192z.dll and msxm193z.dll. You can't delete then as they are in use. You search the registry for these and delete every mension of it.
Then it pops up saying taskmgr.exe, logoff.exe and a few more exe's are virus's. Well I make a note of the name and delete them. Put the WinXP CD in and find the original files which are compressed. Put them on the drive and uncompress them and put them in the System32 folder. I do a restart and it won't startup only in Safe Mode.
Now I know the flash drive these files were on so I formatted it. I did a rebuild this morning just the get Windows operating. I shall have to see tonight when I start installing again if anything else gets inserted.
There was a strange thing yesterday after I rebuilt I have a short-cut for here and it didn't work, it showed site/page not available. I did a Google for it and it showed a few links and all those weren't available either.
My opinion of these virus makers is they are quite good/effective why don't they use their programming talents to useful software and make money? The other thing is I think they are promoted by these anti-virus makers of which there are loads. These companies could be making virus's just so you have to buy anti-virus software. There other thing is they don't like Microsoft and are trying to hack there protection systems. You don't need a virus checker on a MAC or Linux system.